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Write about politics, labor, architecture, etc; email is petermluc at gmail

[PL @Luc_pete]

“While Goldman has voted reliably for pro-labor legislation, Region 9A’s endorsement of Lander suggests that a strong AFL-CIO scorecard alone may no longer be sufficient.”

Full piece for @thenation here: https://t.co/HiIzVfw1vk

[PL @Luc_pete]

Espaillat running the Cuomo strategy back is an interesting move

[PL @Luc_pete]

Heartening to see socialists practicing the age-old Marxist wisdom of believing we can implement a strategy that’s worked in one context in a different context and see the same results

[PL @Luc_pete]

Ah thanks but I don’t actually want that

[I'm not mad I actually think it's funny @herr_naphta]

I love that the moderate Dem line on Israel is now "Israel is a wonderful country we all love and will always defend whose government is led by nazis we hate and condemn."

[Bhaskar Sunkara @sunraysunray]

My speech with @SEARCH_Aus in Sydney.

Socialists were not wrong nor were they History's fools. They were people who looked at the world they had been given and decided it was not good enough, and they spent their energy trying to build something better. https://t.co/cNobai8I40

[PL @Luc_pete]

Ok, whether you’re liberal or conservative, we can all agree this is for the win!

[ESPN @espn]

Adam Silver says the NBA will implement an AI automated system to review calls.

(via @patmcafeeshow)

[PL @Luc_pete]

I had the misfortune of buying a book that is print on demand (without knowing. because they don’t, as far as I can tell, advertise that it’s made to order). A plague upon the reader

[PL @Luc_pete]

Awesome abomination across the street from the signal lanterns of Paul Revere

[PL @Luc_pete]

We must follow the polling.

[PL @Luc_pete]

In the airport, money is not real because you’re about to be in the sky. In a train station, money is still real because, if all goes well, you will remain on the ground.

[PL @Luc_pete]

Pathetic - so perfect for Compact!

[Matthew Schmitz @matthewschmitz]

What the right can learn from the Frankfurt School
https://t.co/D9vCie8zl1

[PL @Luc_pete]

Didn’t realize people were still going on like this. Too bad

[pHiycrtyl @iycrtylph]

like sorry the data center plot in Eddington is a great example of the filmmaker's lack of historical consciousness—these were not a big deal in 2020 even for the speculative capitalists driving their crash construction, the AI & data center bubble begins in 2022

[PL @Luc_pete]

I’ve decided Granta published the AI story with the intent to submit it for the award knowing that it’s judged by AI, to expose it as a sham. Or that this whole mess is fake and made up as a joke. Regardless, just please accept my pitch I’ll say anything really

[PL @Luc_pete]

Genuinely not Granta… please say sike man

[PL @Luc_pete]

Genuinely not Granta… please say sike man

[Equator @Equatormag]

@debhartha tells Pankaj Mishra about his disillusionment with American academia:  its lack of free thought, its steep cost and its grab-bag of jargon that allows it to "cultivate a moral distance from capital and empire."

Visit us at https://t.co/y8NBc8PR3z to hear more.

[PL @Luc_pete]

Annie Ernaux’s The Years asks: what if a French person rips off “We Didn’t Start the Fire”

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

In the last 15 months, we have recruited over 8,500 Americans to run for office at every level of government.

Today, I am proud to endorse 61 progressives running for state and local office across America.

They will fight for the kind of changes our country desperately needs.

[PL @Luc_pete]

Interesting because I thought that was your whole thing?

[PL @Luc_pete]

Masterful review from Robin.

[John Handel @_John_Handel]

Corey Robin reviews Sven Beckert's "Capitalism" (and it seems like he is one of the only people to have actually read the book) and more broadly evaluates 15 years of the "New History of Capitalism."

[PL @Luc_pete]

Dropped two eggs on the ground and it was like seeing $10 of my hard-earned money disappearing, but that’s just how it is under Trump’s Economy